Roger Stone pleads Fifth before Jan. 6 panel, calls the probe ‘witch hunt 3.0’
By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times - Friday, December 17, 2021
Flamboyant political operative Roger Stone kept mum Friday during a grilling by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
He invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination for every question during a deposition that lasted 90 minutes.
“This morning, in fulfillment of a federal subpoena, I did my civic duty and I responded as required by law,” Mr. Stone, a conservative consultant and lobbyist, said after leaving the deposition.
He said he refused to answer questions to protect himself from the House Democrats, and he insisted that he wasn’t involved with any wrongdoing related to the pro-Trump mob storming the Capitol on Jan. 6.
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“I did invoke my Fifth Amendment rights to every question, not because I have done anything wrong, but because I am fully aware of the House Democrats’ long history of fabricating perjury charges on the basis of comments that are innocuous immaterial or irrelevant,” he said.
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